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National Law Journal

Federal Judge Declines to Halt Ethics Investigation Into North Carolina Justice's Comments

U.S. District Judge William Osteen Jr. cites the "vital state interest" in maintaining public confidence in the judiciary's integrity.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-14

Where the inquiring judge's current law clerk was previously the longtime law clerk to another judge, who is now "of counsel" to a law firm but will work exclusively with one attorney and never appear in court: (1) The judge need not disqualify or disclose when the law firm colleagues of the ex-judge appear. (2) Whether the judge must insulate the law clerk from cases involving other attorneys from that firm is fact-specific, and depends on the nature of the relationship between the law clerk and the attorney who appears.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-13

A part-time town justice may serve as a part-time assistant conflict defender in the county in which the judge's court is located.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-12

A judge need not disqualify merely because an attorney in the case shares office space with the judge's attorney sibling, where the attorneys maintain separate and independent law practices and do not share support staff or letterhead or otherwise hold themselves out as associated in the practice of law.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

These South Florida Lawyers Will Have a Key Role in Choosing Judges

These commissions play a pivotal role in the selection and nomination of judges across various districts in Florida.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-11

A part-time judge may maintain employment in a child advocacy center within a law enforcement office in a county different from where the judge presides and may serve as treasurer of a volunteer fire department. We decline to comment on questions that are unduly speculative and hypothetical.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-10

A city court judge need not object to a city police department's automated phone system which offers callers an opportunity to be transferred directly to the court clerk's general office line if they are calling about a court appearance, fine, disposition or court paperwork.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-09

A judge, as the editor of a legal manual used by judges, court personnel, defense attorneys, prosecutors, law enforcement and others, may dedicate the manual to "hard-working individuals that uphold our Criminal Justice System."
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Lauded for 'First Step' on Ethics, but Reformers Want More

"It's really rather modest," said Russell Wheeler, of the Brookings Institution. "It's a step in the right direction, that's the general consensus."
8 minute read

Law.com

Judge Censured for Conduct in Criminal Trial Where His Daughter Was the Victim

After the first day of trial, New Mexico Third Judicial District Judge James T. Martin advised the assistant district attorney in the case to use the phrase "brandish a firearm" rather than asking the jury to find that the defendant "pointed a firearm" at his daughter, according to the opinion.
3 minute read

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